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Create visual development for a horror game franchise across characters, creatures, environments, props, gameplay elements, and cinematic key art. Develop mood paintings, lighting studies, color scripts, and production-ready design documentation while collaborating with creative, narrative, design, animation, VFX, and outsourcing teams. Rapidly iterate from feedback, maintain visual cohesion, balance artistic ambition with production needs, and mentor junior artists.

Implement and iterate in-engine static and animated UIs in Unreal using Blueprint scripting. Collaborate with designers and engineers to ensure readable, accessible, optimized, and consistent interfaces across platforms, document Blueprint architecture best practices, and deliver under production constraints.

Lead cross-functional engineering, QA, and production teams to deliver narrative-driven games on schedule and budget. Define project plans, manage budgets, mitigate risks, oversee quality and certification processes, coordinate launches and post-launch support, and translate creative vision into actionable technical development plans.

Operate as the GM of Games' right hand: run division operating rhythm, manage GM calendar and meetings, aggregate cross-functional status and risks, track decisions and actions, produce executive briefing materials, and lead division-wide operating projects and process improvements.

Lead the game's design vision through pre-production: define gameplay systems, prototype in Unreal/Blueprints, lead a small design team, run playtests, iterate mechanics, collaborate cross-functionally, and scope features for production while mentoring designers.

Design, sculpt, model, and texture high-quality 3D characters for real-time engines. Produce high-poly sculpts and optimized low-poly game-ready models, collaborate with rigging/animation/tech art, maintain visual standards, mentor junior artists, and improve character pipeline and performance across platforms.

The role involves crafting engaging real-time cinematics in Unreal Engine, collaborating with various teams to enhance storytelling and gameplay integration.

Create high-quality real-time VFX (particles, shaders, lighting) in Unreal Engine to enhance gameplay, atmosphere, and player feedback. Iterate quickly with art, design, and engineering, optimize performance across platforms, and maintain organized VFX assets and documentation on a contract timeline.

Perform test case execution, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing for PC/console projects; report clear reproducible bugs; maintain test plans; collaborate with developers, designers, and QA leads to resolve issues and improve gameplay quality.

Lead and mentor a team of 2D artists across concept through final polish for Poppy Playtime and other projects. Establish visual styles and guidelines, contribute to concept planning, produce and iterate environment/character/asset designs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure quality and delivery against creative briefs.